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The Katsina State team that represented Nigeria at the International Debate Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has emerged winner of the competition after beating the hosts Malaysian team.

Mr Badaru said six Junior Secondary School students from Katsina represented Nigeria at the competition. Four of them were females.

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) will soon inaugurate the Smart Schools being established at the cost of N21.6bn across the 36 states of

Heads of State and education sector thought leaders converged in New York City for the inaugural edition of the United Nations (UN) Transforming Education Summit with one goal: Crowdsourcing ideas towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) by 2030.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has charged the Nigerian government to address barriers responsible for the increasing number of out-of-school children in the country.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Law provides that

  Most of the bandits and terrorists-ravaged states in the northern part of the country made the top lists of out-of-school children in Nigeria which has now reached 20 million. According to a report quoted by a research firm, SB Morgan, Kebbi State has 62% for male and 67% for female out-of-school children, Bauchi has 60% for males, and 61% female, while Zamfara followed the list, with 57.4% for males, and 66% for females.

One of the gravy trains used to stockpile money in the name of education is the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).

Six companies have been allegedly used by the Nomadic Education Commission in Kano State to divert N290million, with two of the companies belonging to the same individuals, WikkiTimes’ investigation has revealed. The last set of schools either constructed or established in Kano State by the National Commission for Nomadic Education was in 2016, two years even before the current projects were conceived.

The Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has threatened to revoke contracts awarded for the construction and renovation of schools from the contractors that failed to adhere to the terms of agreements.